I covered this back last year and the year before but time to go over it all again for the new members and to refresh ppls memories.
Can Admin please make this a sticky as it will save loads of ppl from posting the same questions all the time.
Right.
There have been a lot of posts of late about people saying that there buns dont seem to like there food any more.
The first thing everybody has to realise is that all feeds are made from crops such as alfalfa and hay's with other crops such as flax seed (linseed) etc added.
From year to year the quality and taste of these crops change dependant on the sun, rain, soil etc etc. This means that the ingredients that go into the feeds can never be identical so the makeup and tase of the feeds will change constantly.
With human foods there are huge panels of taste testers and specialists to blend the ingredients to maintain consistancey. In the pet food markets things are different. The primery way that the feeds are matched to the last batch will be by the chemical analysis of the ingredients and of the finished product.
To the very best of my knowladge there are not many human taste testers in the pet food market. This means that you will never get 2 batches exactly the same even if there chemical makup is almost identical.
So what can you the end user do about this.
Not much..... pass on your comments to the manufacturers as we did when the density issue came up with SS quite a while ago. That issue was the result of a equipment configuration issue so could be resolved quite easily.
With ingredients issues there is not much that can be done. Try a differnet batch number, or try a different feed. Either way there will come a time when you have to go through it all again when the feed changes the next time.
Just accept that things change.
Who is to blame?
Well that is a hard one. I think it safe to say everybody is. e.g. the farmers that grow the crops, mother nature for giving us such a inconsistant climate, Joe public for causing global warming, wholesellers for how they store the raw ingredients and then store the finished product, the manufacturers for choosing those batches of ingredients etc etc etc the list goes on.
If you have any comments feel free.
Can Admin please make this a sticky as it will save loads of ppl from posting the same questions all the time.
Right.
There have been a lot of posts of late about people saying that there buns dont seem to like there food any more.
The first thing everybody has to realise is that all feeds are made from crops such as alfalfa and hay's with other crops such as flax seed (linseed) etc added.
From year to year the quality and taste of these crops change dependant on the sun, rain, soil etc etc. This means that the ingredients that go into the feeds can never be identical so the makeup and tase of the feeds will change constantly.
With human foods there are huge panels of taste testers and specialists to blend the ingredients to maintain consistancey. In the pet food markets things are different. The primery way that the feeds are matched to the last batch will be by the chemical analysis of the ingredients and of the finished product.
To the very best of my knowladge there are not many human taste testers in the pet food market. This means that you will never get 2 batches exactly the same even if there chemical makup is almost identical.
So what can you the end user do about this.
Not much..... pass on your comments to the manufacturers as we did when the density issue came up with SS quite a while ago. That issue was the result of a equipment configuration issue so could be resolved quite easily.
With ingredients issues there is not much that can be done. Try a differnet batch number, or try a different feed. Either way there will come a time when you have to go through it all again when the feed changes the next time.
Just accept that things change.
Who is to blame?
Well that is a hard one. I think it safe to say everybody is. e.g. the farmers that grow the crops, mother nature for giving us such a inconsistant climate, Joe public for causing global warming, wholesellers for how they store the raw ingredients and then store the finished product, the manufacturers for choosing those batches of ingredients etc etc etc the list goes on.
If you have any comments feel free.